Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Frippis an English guitarist, composer and record producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth16 May 1946
Robert Fripp quotes about
I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.
cannot course deal expect manage members next persuade thousands
Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.
business care characters dealing former hostile hours lawsuits mean means members music musician playing spend stolen taking various
Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.
The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
thinking our-world shapes
The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.
music wine silence
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
coffee book party
Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
quality firsts innocence
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
art knowing
The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.
musical logic
Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.
want unnecessary unlikely
What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
views world sophisticated
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.